Man injured during fight in parking lot of Woodbridge restaurant

Google MapsA street view of Shalimar, a restaurant in Iselin. A fight broke out in the parking lot of the restaurant this morning, injuring a man.

WOODBRIDGE — A man was hit in the head with a tire iron or other metal instrument in a restaurant parking lot early this morning in the Iselin section of town, but police have made no headway in the investigation because of the vague account of the victim.

Two men had parked in the lot of Shalimar Restaurant on Oak Tree Road after 2 a.m., and one of them approached another car to talk with another group of people.

“He thought he knew somebody in one of the cars,” said Capt. Roy Hoppock.

But a fight broke out, Hoppock said. While the first man was distracted by people in the car, his friend was knocked in the head with a metal implement – something that may have been a tool like a tire iron or wrench, Hoppock said.

After the fight wound down, the alleged assailants took off in an undescribed car.

The 41-year-old victim suffered a gash in the back of the head, but he refused medical treatment, even signing a waiver when emergency services responded to the scene, Hoppock said.

But the description of the incident remains vague, the captain said. The two men could not identify the people they thought they had known, he said.